After years of dedicated research and hard work, Dr. Elske Hoornenborg successfully defended her dissertation in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam, in the Oude Lutherse Kerk in Amsterdam on [...]
On January 22nd, H-TEAM member and AMPrEP project leader Elske Hoornenborg will defend her dissertation PrEP in the Netherlands – The introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. The public [...]
On November 29th, during the National STI*HIV*Sex Conference in Amsterdam, a ZonMw “Parel” (Pearl) was awarded to drs. Elske Hoornenborg, head of the STI outpatient clinic at the Public Health [...]
A pill that provides good protection against HIV is now available in the Netherlands, but some GPs are reluctant in prescribing it. GP and H-TEAM member Jan van Bergen, professor HIV and STI in [...]
On August 1st, the regulation on the distribution of HIV prevention pill PrEP commenced. “No reason to rejoice, according to Public Health Service employees, HIV and STI professionals and most of [...]
As of August 1st, HIV prevention pill PrEP will be available in all PHS (GGD) regions in the Netherlands. Access to PrEP remains limited: the pills will only be available for a ‘high-risk group’. [...]
The House of Representatives of the Netherlands does not want to wait until summer to provide PrEP and has adopted a motion of D66 and GroenLinks so that current PrEP users can go to the Public [...]
More than twenty people have contracted HIV because they could not get PrEP. PrEP is a pill which prevents an HIV infection. The AIDS Fund/STI AIDS Netherlands criticizes the minister for medical [...]
“The Dutch government keeps postponing full PrEP coverage”, writes Antony Oomen of Soa Aids Netherlands and the H-TEAM. “Meanwhile, the Dutch HIV epidemic is unnecessary but [...]
The provision of a pill that can prevent an HIV infection might be delayed for another six months. According to interest groups, this is ‘incomprehensible’. In a letter to the minister for [...]
Each year, in the run-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December, Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) publishes the annual HIV Monitoring Report. Today they released the latest figures for 2017, which reveal [...]
The Dutch government is going to distribute PrEP, a medicine which reduces the risk of HIV infection, to men in a ‘high risk group’ for a period of five years. This was announced on Tuesday by [...]
On Tuesday March 27, 2018 the Health Council of the Netherlands issued an advice on the use of PrEP for HIV prevention. PrEP is intended for people who don’t have an HIV infection but are [...]
The price of HIV prevention medicine PrEP has been drastically reduced as of January 1, 2018. A generic version is now available for €47,95 a month from all pharmacies in the Netherlands. Until [...]
The price of PrEP, the pill that can prevent new HIV infections, will decrease significantly. Plusapotheken, pharmacies that distribute the prevention pill, have made a deal with pharmacist [...]
Prevention is better than cure, especially with a deadly illness such as HIV. Luckily there is a pill that can prevent infection with the HIV virus: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis). Together with [...]
PrEP for a year Preventive HIV medication PrEP is currently only available in the Netherlands in the context of the Public Health Service Amsterdam (GGD Amsterdam) study into PrEP. There are 376 [...]
HIV prevention pill PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is not yet available in the Netherlands except for participants in the AMPrEP (Amsterdam PrEP) study of Public Health Service Amsterdam (GGD [...]
Volkskrant follows participants of the AMPrEP (Amsterdam PrEP) study of Public Health Service Amsterdam (GGD Amsterdam). Read the interview with the participants on the website of the [...]
